Destination bride registry

Re: Destination bride registry

• manateehugger member

  

  October 2013

  crltx said:

  My fiancé and I are getting married in TX. We live in HI (we are from TX that is why). I don't want to carry tons of gifts back...is there some way I can just go to the stores and ask them if the buyer can just purchase the gift and I can pick it up in HI when I get home? Or any other ideas for registries?

  Set your registry up so that guests can have their gifts shipped to your house in HI before or after the wedding.

  
  

  Otherwise, just register for small things you don't mind lugging around. Or don't register and hope people get the hint that you would appreciate cash. 

  

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• annathy03 member

  

  October 2013

  If you think most of your guests will buy online they'll have the option of shipping to whatever address you give the store, so direct to HI in your case. Or keep your registry small and mostly unbreakables you could pack (towels, sheets, OXO kitchen tools, etc)- most folks will take the hint and give cash, and then you can say what you got/plan to buy with it in their thank you note.

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• muenginerd member

  

  October 2013

  A friend had her wedding in her hometown halfway across the country.  They could not fit all the gifts into their car to drive home so they returned some of the larger gifts for gift cards then repurchased those same gifts when they got home.  It's not ideal, but if you don't tell people they never have to know...

  We were smart, we gave them a gift card!

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• MobKaz member

  

  October 2013

  annathy03 said:

  If you think most of your guests will buy online they'll have the option of shipping to whatever address you give the store, so direct to HI in your case. Or keep your registry small and mostly unbreakables you could pack (towels, sheets, OXO kitchen tools, etc)- most folks will take the hint and give cash, and then you can say what you got/plan to buy with it in their thank you note.

  
  

  If you do make an arrangement for gifts to be shipped to your home, make sure you have a contingency plan for gifts that may be delivered while you are out of town.  

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• morganmr member

  

  November 2013

  We moved states just a few months before our wedding. On our wedding website registry page, we added a note that we'd recently moved and if one was choosing to give a gift, to consider having it shipped directly to our home, as we'd be traveling directly to our honeymoon after the wedding. We only had about 10 people (of 100) bring a gift or gift card, the others that gave a gift had it shipped to our home. They arrived pretty steadily the whole month of our wedding.

  
  

  Because we had to be out of town for two weeks around the wedding and honeymoon, we had a house sitter come by and bring gifts inside - several guests were worried about their gift arriving while we were gone, so I'm glad we'd arranged that ahead of time. 

  
  

  One more note - we registered with Crate and Barrel and Williams-Sonoma. After my bridal showers, both stores let me bring in some of the big items (like appliances) that they returned and had re-shipped to my home in the new state. That way I had plenty of room for the one-of-a-kind gifts in my carry-on. Saved us a lot of postage we'd thought we'd have to spend.

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